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NRHS Greensboro Club History

The Greensboro Chapter of the NRHS was founded in January 1977 and is operated as anon-profit organization whose purpose is to collect and preserve historical data, artifactsand equipment pertaining to railroads of all kinds and teaching the history of railroadingto the public. The chapter has set up railroad displays in a number of public locationsincluding the Greensboro Public Library, the Greensboro Historical Museum, and theCivil Rights Museum. Of special note is the permanent historical marker commemoratingthe Atlantic & Yadkin Railway which ran from Sanford to Greensboro and then to MountAiry. Chapter members created the message and paid for and erected the marker next to aformer A&Y trestle that ran across Lake Brandt, It is located on the Lake Brandt Trail innorthwest Greensboro.